Slow Knowledge. We invite you to join this Space.
All social media sites try to get you to speed up information, just forward articles, give a smart quick comment etc.
In this space we wish to Slow down Knowledge, because we believe, as Samdong Rinpoche what you get is data, which you need to contemplate, relate to your universe of beliefs, and act on it for it to become knowledge.
All knowledge is slow.. In this space we wish to take this process slower .. share, collaborate, and jointly co-critique ideas. So instead of just forwarding any interesting article, or book that you read, we want you to share your annotation, notes, so that others can get the benefit of your read, perspective and react to it. This will also motivate those among us who are not able to read as much, read.
We begin by offering our notes and drafts in the Long & Winding Road project, even as it is being researched in a spirit of collaboration and public domain.
In case you like contribute to L & W Road, we are willing to look at time share and exchange, LETS style.. write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details...
Community Learning Movement: A Sharing Session with Dilip Kamat
Science, Society & Knowledge Series
Produced by CED in collaboration with Punarchith, CED & KICS
Economic Localising is Politics against Globalisation - EOH III Bangalore- March 2014
Localisation is not only about going back to traditional structure. There is this new movement emerging particularly in the industrialised world consciously, shortening the distance between production and consumption. These shorter distances, bring with them a multitude of benefits.
Structurally, in the local food movement, when a farmer sells to a market closer to home, the economic pressure is to diversify, to produce more than just one mono-crop. Such practices do not lead to this drone-line global economy, where we cant see who we are killing, or what we are poisoning, what we are polluting. The shorter distances are necessary to rebuild ecological sustainability - fundamentally ecological to have more localised economy. It is also about rebuilding, that experience of interdependence, that is fundamental to all spiritual teachings.
We really are talking about this urgent need for real decentralisation of power. -- Helena Norberg-Hodge, Opening remarks at the third Economics of Happiness Conference held at Bangalore March 14-16, 2014, For Full text of Helena's click read more below...
Economics of Happiness - III
Bangalore March 2014
Video Documentation (Work in Progress)
Public Session: 15th March
Key Note Address: By Samdhong Rinpoche Full Video on You tube
Introductory Lecture & Q & A: Helena Norberg-Norge Full Video on You Tube
Panel Discussion I: Claude Alvares, Charles Eisenstein, Aseem Srivatsava, Camila Moreno, Felix Padel, Helena Norberg-Hodge; chaired by Manish Jain Full Video on Youtube
Panel Discussion II: The Way Forward - Ashish Kothari, P. V. Rajagopal, Keibo Oiwa,
Bayo Akomolafe, Helena Norberg-Hodge; chaired by Manish Jain Full Video on Youtube
Q & A on Localisation & Modernity with Samdhong Rinpoche, Helena Hodge, Seetha Anantasivan
Notes on Work, Workers and Workers Organisations
The nation is halfway through the elections to the parliament and most parties have ignored the legitimate concerns of labour, except to chorus the need for `labour reforms' or `flexible labour markets'. It is time to remember the on going struggle of the workers at Maruti's `fastest car producing facility in the world at Manesar for their right to organise and strive for human working conditions and just wages'.
May Day ...
It is a call sign of distress. I remember Labour Day when we were kids. I remember feeling a sense of pride at my father been part of the labour force which was seen as the main contributor to building the Nehruvian India.. an Industrial india etc.
Today in the midst of elections, the mood has changed. Even though many agree the the manufacturing sector would need to be encouraged if the so called GDP growth based on services, financial sector and real estate valuations has to be sustained, there is a fear that labour will ask to be given its rightful value in the scheme of things.
Our recent CC, Remembering Manesar and the ongoing labour tensions (unreported at other highly mechanised modern ) tell us that even in the buoyant automotive industry, and the value of the "riveter" ( remember the film rosie the riveter?), who perhaps provides higher "surplus value" than other toiling counterparts, the situation is desperate, with capital being more rapacious.
